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For a short time the sequel to Ressurection
will be free in serialised form

Part

A forced landing is a pilots worst nightmare. The forced landing
of an airliner, on the frigid wastes of Antarctica, is unimaginable. As
winter draws its white cloak over the continent, rescue becomes impossible;
hope slips away, and the ice entombs its victims. Years pass, generations
come and go: alien contact is made, and the world is subjugated. Now the
future depends on one man.

The Adventures of Jet Black and the
Starship Crew.

Disillusionment can be a great motivator, and when the only way out
is up Jet learns that friends can be found in the most unlikely of places:
that a courier service is much more than delivering parcels and that diamonds
are everyone's best friends.

So what is Jet to do? To save his and the lives of the crew he has
committed theft on a grand scale and made a ruthless enemy. Maybe find a
safe hideout, but he can't stay hidden for ever when injustice is wreaked
on a helpless society. Then he must risk the Silver Flyer, and give his
foe the opportunity to eliminate all the evidence; including him.

Jet and the crew find a 3000k metal sphere in deep space. Why has
it apparently been abandoned: why is it full of a single element; and what
is it for? It's up to jet to solve the puzzle, and escape in time; if he
can.

As if landing on a planet bathed in deadly cosmic radiation wasnt
enough, someone's out to kill Jet and the crew; and they want to do it in
the most cruel and unusual way they can.

When Jet is asked to work for the militia; transporting one of the
Galaxies most dangerous criminals to a penitentiary, it places him
and the crew up against ruthless people who are determined to set their
passenger free at any cost.

Rosie and Chub are dying, and its up to Jet alone to save them;
that means facing the creature of his nightmares for the first time.

A mummified hand twelve millienia old: a sacred symbol to some; a
symbol of power to others. To the greedy a source of wealth, and to his
enemies it could be Jets life.

The crew have just thirty-six hours to put things right before the
authorities arrest them, but Jet has accepted an offer from a beautiful
stranger; Rosie is going to break the laws of both society and mysticism,
and Chub needs to warn the others that killers are looking for them whatever
they do.

A distress call from an isolated outpost, on a planet with carnivorous
ants the size of bullocks, that can spit acid. A place to avoid unless your
Jet Black

.

A city populated only by women; sounds like the place Jet Black would
feel right at home, but a lesbos utopia it isnt when Mermen enslave
the population; you've lost half the crew, and your branded a traitor.

It should have been almost a holiday for Rosie and Jet; a delivery
to a planet whose civilisation lives in a medieval time; but then the king
turns up in a stretched limo and demands their spaceship: and Chub cant
help, he's slowly bleeding to death trapped inside a volcano.

Rosie has to transfer enough gold for a kings ransom. It should
be easy; she has a warship to protect her and everything is a hundred percent
legal, so why is she facing life in prison, and why is the stranger who
shes just met got her questioning her feelings for Jet

Rosie desperately needs a holiday: somewhere quiet where she can
relax; but relaxing isnt possible when the Christmas card snow scene
turns into a blizzard, and theres something outside the cabin intent
on tearing its way in. This time Jet really does put life and limb on the
line to save the crew and the people of a small town from his own nightmare.

A call from a beautiful Merwoman has Jet and the crew carrying an
empty box into hostile territory to face their nightmare.

A gigantic alien spaceship is racing across the galaxy; it isnt slowing
down and it wont respond to any calls: whats Jet and the crew
to do before an accident happens? Get aboard, but where is everybody: asleep?
And where have all the rocks littering the floors come from? Maybe the answer
is to find out whats prowling around the dark and silent passageways
before it finds them.

Jet and Selian take time out to lean about natural history and realises
theyve been so focused on the Swamp Monster that Jets forgotten to
watch out for his other nemesis.

All the crew have to do is transfer some workers to a mining camp, but nobody
warned them about iron rain or the Strangelets; and only about one of the
contracts.

Verdant; it was meant to be a cornucopia of protein, but it turned
out to be a disaster in fungi. Now the Three Galaxies Insurance Alliance
have to pay up big, unless Jet and the crew can get evidence that the G.P.Org
had voided the policy, but first they have to escape the planet without
being eaten; avoid the spiders, and try not to be fried by radiation.

Auctions can be fun: auctions can be exciting. Auctions can be trouble when
what was bid for contains more than what the catalogue reveals.

Soon Jet Black and Eve of War #24

Sometimes legends are true

END OF JET BLACK SECTONSTART
OF COMPAY SECTON

There is a time far, far into the future where all that has happened
before is forgotten. A future where all people know of is a century's long
war that raged even before the systems were colonized. Some believe that
having the knowledge of how it began can bring it to an end, but changing
the past has consequences that no one could have imagined.

The future can never escape from the past no more than situations can
remain the same. Such too can be said of each and every person, but you
and I are not always who we seem to be, even to ourselves let alone to a
stranger. In some the secrets are even deeper, so deep that even they are
unaware of their place or of the course that fate has laid out before them.

There was much more to Rhea than Alexi had ever imagined; and more than
he could ever have believed.

We cannot choose our relatives; but accept who they are. We choose our
friends, but often find they are not the people who we believed them to
be. We work with our associates, but know little of their thoughts. We accept
a superiors choice, while preferring our own. Life is defined by choices
that we make; every moment of every day, but of all our choices the wisest
among us know that we choose our enemies very carefully.

There comes a time when the last great war is almost forgotten: a time
when people grow and make what they need for the simple lives they live.
It is also a time of oppression; when overlords are suspicious of the people,
for now is the time foretold. in the end devastation will be faced.
Men will weep. Women will perish. Families will be orphaned. Ruin will reign.
Hope will be gone. Death will give forth life. Out of the sun good will
face evil in the unwinnable, final battle. Evil will be ripped apart. Good
will be cast into pieces. The prophecy will come to pass.

Prophecy has been published in a free serialised version

In all our lives there come times when we must face our past. Sometimes
we fear what we may see; sometimes we welcomely revisit; but almost always
the experience has changed. What were once happy memories are never quite
as enjoyable: occasionally a bad experience can be understood, and its demons
swept aside. Whatever of our emotions are stirred we are never the same;
something either pleasurable or avoided has been taken from us.

Bloodthirsty Pirates: World War II: an Island paradise, and a stolen
Ruby with mystical powers makes a leisurely sailing holiday, anything but.
Alone and trapped on an island two children must find a way to save their
parents before the Shahs mystic ruby brings time back into order.

Part

The Prophecy

1

Nicholas, The Beginning

When we are born we are a blank canvas waiting for life to reveal who
we are. We live our lives day by day changing it for the better or worse
often on no more than impulse. For a few who we will be is already foretold,
and their lives will carry them along inextricably to confront their destiny;
Nicholas Day is one

2

Harriet - End of Peace

A Yin needs a Yang; a prophecy needs heroes; but to those of the old
order change is heresy and dissidents need to be hunted down whatever the
cost; even if it means a wave of death will spread over the lands of Loc-Sie.

3

The Gift of Second Life

A stranger helps and tells an even stranger story that sees Nicholas
leave all he has ever known behind and begin his search, but he is now a
hunted man, and has to go where danger lurks around every bend.

4

Road and Forest

Nicholas travels to places far beyond even those he has heard talk of,
where friendships old and new are revived; wondrous sights are seen, and
a whole new history is revealed. Now he has to make the choice to join in
the rebellion or stand by as his world changes yet again.

When Nicholas sets out to confront his destiny danger is not just at
the end of his journey; death and hardship lurk all along the way.

7

Love: Over Before it Began

Nicholas thought he had lost all he had until he has to loose more:
in return he is given purpose to his life, even if it means hell probably
die.

8

The City

Only Nicholas knows the secret is secret no more and he needs to race
to Quone to warn the others, but before he can he has to delay a secret
weapon so powerful that if it arrives the rebellion has no chance of success.

9

The Marshals Ace

As Nicholas arrives in the city and sets about finding the rebels, the
Marshal is consolidating his trap, but it must be without the Drakken.

10

A New Leader Emerges

Nicholas arrives too late to warn his friends, but just in time to witnesses
the bloody end of the revolution. With all hope lost he sets out to wreak
his own retribution, at the almost certain cost of his own life.

11

Success and Failure

Nicholas snatches success from failure, but as the celebrations begin
the Marshal reveals his ultimate weapon.

12

A False New Dawn

Not all victories are secured on the battlefield: sometimes in the face
of defeat we hand our adversary success simply by accepting we cannot win.
When it seems all the options have gone maybe all that is needed is confidence,
and maybe an edge

The battle is over, and the prophecy has come to pass, but is Nicholas
prepared for what is to follow?

Orbit the Sun Series

A hotel at the edge of space; a close encounter
with an asteroid, and a journey that no-one expected, go to prove that space
tourism: the destination for those who have been everywhere, is not the
place you want to be when things go wrong.

An observational error, a miscalculation? Either have consequences:
sometimes serious, but mostly the effects can be compensated for. But some
mistakes are beyond recovery and sometimes nature reminds us that no matter
how clever we think we are, we are no match for her surprises and power.

Earthrise has left orbit, and with its reluctant passengers is thrust
into the unknown; but as the crew and guests come to terms with their journey,
they are unaware that the encounter with Nemesis has affected them in a
way that they have yet to discover.

Is Mathew becoming paranoid; even when more people die he isnt
sure, and what about the beautiful married woman, is she to be the next
victim?

Mathew is out of his comfort zone, he has to work out how to take the
space station closer to the sun. It needs all his attention, but he cant
get the Russian woman out of his mind, or that the commander has accused
him of plotting to take over Earthrise. He was sure a murderer was aboard,
but its possible that everyone is just losing their memory, and now
theres the green glow...

Mathew and the others have a lot to deal with already: they are making
their approach to the sun and there's an underflow of dissent: what they
need least of all is a parasite that makes them reckless.

As Earthrise gets closer to the Sun both the heat and tensions are rising.
Discipline is falling apart; rumour fuels fear, and both crew and visitors
are losing faith in decisions that have been made. Now Andrew has to face
the mob before Earth leaves them behind.

Earthrise is out of control and heading the wrong way. The command structure
has collapsed and gangs are starting to roam the space station. If that
wasnt bad enough Jennifer has betrayed Mathews trust, and the
fox has been given permission to look after the chickens.

Getting back to Earth is a roller coaster ride as disappointment follows
exhilaration over and over; yet when everyone has given up there is a sliver
of hope from the last place anyone thought of, but Earthrise isnt
the same place that was flung into space, and while some just want to get
home others see the potential to exploit.

Salvation is possible; starvation is averted, and hope is rising aboard
Earthrise. Now: just as a future is possible, everything is threatened when
Andrew lets himself be manipulated, and Peter makes his move for control.

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